Patriots make MULTIPLE Moves... This is AMAZING | Patriots News

The New England Patriots have just made multiple moves, including one giant one. Today, we discuss the moves made before the Jets game, including the activation of a major player on offense, plus an interesting release and one elevation to the 53-man roster for Sunday's game. All of it encompassed right here on today's show. So welcome into Patriots Digest, everybody. I'm Jace Andrews, and I hope you're having a great Saturday wherever you might be watching college football, whoever your team might be, but let's get into some Patriots news as we await our one o'clock kick tomorrow versus the New York Jets. And we start with all the moves directly coming from Mike Reese. Here are the Patriots transactions for this Saturday. We have activated A.J. Brown off IR to the 53-man roster. That's the major move we're going to break down here, but there also was a couple others. They did elevate safety Elliot Davison off of the practice squad onto the 53-man roster just for this game you get three elevations from practice squad to the roster every single year they also released newly signed running back Hassan Haskins which gives us some interesting input into Travion Henderson's status but let's start first with the major one and that is of course AJ Brown coming off IR now this is fantastic news and after a week's worth of practice in which we saw him cut great look well and although it was limited fashion in some portions he looked like he was fully ready to go and obviously this is the first step to it all but at the end of the day he still is questionable for tomorrow's game just because he is activated for tomorrow does not mean that he is 100 good to go gonna play it just means he has the ability to and he could be on a snap count even if he does so lots of stuff still to be decided but i really do think we are going to see him in some form or fashion tomorrow afternoon Which just hammers home the point to trade yes on Kalshi for the New England Patriots to win this game against the New York Jets. 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It was very much a very good sign to see him move forward each and every day and look better and better every single day and AJ did say he felt good in his return to practice and that team was managing his workload to see how he responds but by the time we got to yesterday Friday in the final practice felt 100% confident in his body and that was a very limited time that we got to see our All Pro trade acquisition from the offseason from the Eagles just four targets 26 receiving yards no touchdowns in the first half of the first game of the year I mean it feels like forever ago we played off against the Seahawks and we're a completely different team in the way that we had injuries and just the way that we looked in that game to the way that Drake May and this team looks now which we can talk about that a different timeline but here is the injury timeline for Mr. A.J. Brown September 9th that was of course the game against the Seahawks to open up the season on Wednesday that's when he suffered that high ankle sprain he returned to practice and opened up his 21 day window on October 14th we now have officially activated him he still is questionable for tomorrow but given the activation I have to think he's going to play in some form or fashion it might be a limited role but you wouldn't activate him today if you weren't 100 positive of him being somewhat available for tomorrow's game now what it means moving forward for this team is immeasurable one you're going to be in a good spot for what you have in your wide receiver room and even if his snap count does get monitored you don't have a full you know representation of what he can put out there i'll take 40 of what AJ Brown can bring and put on this wide receiver room even though you know we don't necessarily hopefully don't need him without Mac Hollins it's definitely a huge thing and of course i know the one person that's might be more excited than AJ Brown or at least just as excited as Drake Maye now Drake is obviously gaining a potential top weapon um it just depends on you know exactly what we can see for A.J. Brown and all that, but we kind of know what type of player he is. Drake Maye, back this month, was talking about how much he can add to this team, the player that he is, and the skills that he possesses. And he says that there aren't many like him that roam around this league. And so I'm really excited to see what we can get out of Drake May and A.J. Brown in a full season. Drake has already started to look like his past self. He still has the seven interceptions, but again, a majority of that came in the first three games, which Mike Vrabel just has his way of coaching, and we're going to get past it. We're going to be okay. 1,200 passing yards. Guy who has had back-to-back fantastic weeks. Probably should have been the AFC player of the week, but either way, he's just a really good quarterback as of late and has shown that Drake May is back to what we expected. without Mac Hollins, but he's going to have A.J. Brown, Romeo Dobbs, his two new acquisitions this offseason. Pop Douglas looked fantastic in the game against the Raiders. Kyle Williams looked fantastic against the game against the Raiders. Efton Chisum has looked fantastic the past two weeks. But ultimately, everybody wants to talk up the Raiders' defense and say that it's that good, and then as soon as we beat them, it's not that good. Well, get ready for the same thing to happen against the Jets because people are saying, oh, the Jets, the one thing they have, Aaron Glenn's a good defensive coach, so I don't know how that's going to work. But we'll see what happens tomorrow. Targets, of course, to monitor. Romeo Dobbs, he's been the main guy since we've lost A.J. Brown, so expect him to be in a little bit of a target deficiency, especially if A.J. plays as a full go, like 100%. and then I'm curious to see what Pop Douglas and Kyle Williams have because obviously coming off a week where we scored 40 plus points so they got their targets they got their catches but are they going to keep that kind of momentum going with the return of A.J. Brown I hope so this wide receiver room is pretty solid as it is especially adding A.J. but definitely something to monitor for tomorrow's game now we do have some other roster moves I do want to get to before we end this video so the first one is a cut the Patriots did release running back Hassan Haskins now this is interesting to me and it tells us a lot about Travion Henderson because when you look at what we could expect from the signing this earlier week with Hassan it was okay there's concern for Travion well if you release him I think it's the same thing that you think about okay well if you signed him because you were concerned about Travion you cut him because you're not concerned in theory right like that that should be how it is now he signed again just this week like Monday literally and then was released here on Saturday just uh you know one practice squad opening has now opened up so there is a spot for a potential maybe they liked one of the three running backs they tried out yesterday so we'll keep an eye on that as we progress through this upcoming week in terms of Travion he was surprised that he was able to practice which is a little interesting and I think we were all surprised too but he said that you know given the high ankle sprain the test that's what they revealed but ultimately he doesn't feel like he had a high ankle sprain again I'm going to trust the medical imaging over word of mouth but I still think this is huge and given you're releasing him it's kind of the same thing you're not going to activate A.J. Brown if he's not going to play in some form or fashion tomorrow you're not going to cut Hassan Haskins after just signing him if you don't feel confident in what Travion Henderson can bring to the table now as for Travion and his stats this season 163 rushing yards one rushing touchdown he's really been the better back of him and Ramondre Stevenson it's no discredit to Ramondre but I think we can all agree at this point long-term solution if Travion keeps going he's the number one back you'd like to keep both of them for as long as possible but it would be really nice to have both of them in this game just because the Jets are interesting their secondary should be better but or should be not as good as their rushing attack with David Bailey and to some extent that is true but I still I think their defense is better than the Raiders now it's not saying much the Raiders defense we cut up like Swiss cheese so we'll see but um oh at the end of the day it's just like AJ Brown there's not a guarantee that we're going to get back Travion Henderson there is no you know medical clearance given we don't have a you know full roster move yet obviously was never placed on IR he's still listed as questionable and we'll have to wait and see how it comes out for tomorrow's matchup versus the New York Jets again if he can't play here the hope is it's a short week of practice he can be back for the Thursday Night Football game against the Bears and uh big news on that Caleb Williams is playing this week for the Bears so expect him to play on Thursday night against the Patriots as well so that becomes a lot a lot bigger game. One other and final move to focus on, we talked about in the beginning, but Patriots have elevated safety. Elliot Davison, and a couple reasons on why they chose to him. First thing, it's the second straight elevation for him, so not going to have to learn any new signals or stuff. I mean, he's already in the organization. He also had a special teams tackle against the Raiders, so something there, and definitely want some extra help in that safety room. Now, you do feel confident in your safeties. Your cornerbacks are the ones that are injured, but I think the reason why Davidson got the call over other options is because he does have some experience at the cornerback position along with the safety position so you have that kind of i guess uh double entendre to him where you can play at both positions and it makes it a good spot still waiting on the you know official ruling for Campbell and Henderson we probably won't find that out till tomorrow morning to be honest with you but given they did not elevate a running back given they did not elevate an offensive tackle you kind of feel good about what could happen tomorrow with Will Campbell and with Travion Henderson I feel like if you had to ask me right now I'd say it's 85 percent that him in fact I'll go one step further A.J. Brown Will Campbell and Travion Henderson I think I'm both all combined have an 85 percent chance to play so like that's pretty solid when you think about it and we'll see kind of what trends what what happens but here's the full transaction roundup for today A.J. Brown obviously activated off the IR so he's there Davison has been elevated and Hassan Haskins was released from the practice squad there is a practice squad slot open and I I don't believe the Patriots, I think they had a 53-man roster spot open. They might have. So I don't think they had to cut anybody from the 53-man roster. But we'll see if that does, that might pop up tomorrow. We'll see. I thought they had opened a roster spot. But besides the points, here's your AFC East picture. You want to beat the Jets because if they win, you're all of a sudden tied with them in the AFC East. Which, you know, all the Jets fans are like, the big game for us. Like, we got to go out there and teach them. Teach them a lesson here. Put them to 2-4. Put us to 4-2. And hey, maybe you can tie the bills this week. Now, one final thing I want to ask you is what your top move was from this move transactions. Was Brown being activated off the injured list? Was it Hassan Haskins and Henderson kind of knowing that Travion could play this week, or is it the elevation of Davison? To me, I think it's Hassan Haskins getting released and the prospect of Travion playing. I love A.J. Brown. I think he's going to be great, but I still don't know what capacity we're going to have him in tomorrow. So I think Henderson being fully ready to go, at least that's what it sounds like, is a big thing to me. Let us know A for Brown, B for Henderson, C for Davison. And, of course, we'll keep you updated and see you tomorrow. Again, a reminder, apologies, no stream tomorrow. But, of course, we will have a video for you later on in the evening. And we'll keep you covered all through the week. So make sure you hit that subscribe button. For now, guys, peace out.